Moje píseň pro Čechy – Kenny Anne Marie (2024)

The novel life story of American Anne Marie Kenny, who found her home in Prague during the wild nineties.
With recommendations from personalities like Marta Kubišová, Jáchym Topol, Martin Palouš, and an illustration by Petr Sís on the cover.
Prague in the nineties, an extraordinary place and time. The Cold War had ended. The Berlin Wall had fallen. The countries of the Soviet bloc, including Czechoslovakia, had just gained freedom. It was a heady atmosphere with an open future. Anne Marie Kenny experienced it - a singer with Czech roots who ventured into business here.
Her life story rivals that of a novel - a tragic childhood blow, singing on the Champs Élysées at twenty-one, an artistic career in Paris and Nice, a concert at the Reduta at the invitation of Václav Havel, and a subsequent business career in Prague.
Readers will meet remarkable people alongside her - a father who was a lawyer, whom she lost at the age of two, a Czech-American mother who raised five children, an economic advisor to François Mitterrand, who opened her horizons, a cardinal who confessed while washing windows during communism, a secretary whose grandfather ended up in the Jáchymov camps, a photographer whose parents married in Terezín, and last but not least...